The Government will present next year’s tax laws to Parliament on Tuesday, the Government Spokesperson announced at a press conference held together with the Minister of National Economy. Éva Kurucz stressed, in addition to supporting employment and the raising of children, the most important objective of the fiscal system is to boost economic growth. The budget bill will be presented to Parliament by 31 October.
The Government will create further new jobs in the next four years, and seeks to achieve full employment in cooperation with the world of business as well as to significantly increase the number of qualified workers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Budapest at the ceremony held on the occasion of the opening of the training centre of Siemens.
Minister of National Development Miklós Seszták represented Hungary at the annual meeting of information and communications technology ministers in Busan, South Korea, on 19 October, 2014. The ICT ministers of the 52 countries attending the event adopted a common statement on the future vision of the sector.
Wages in real terms are up by 2.9 percent in the initial eight months of the year. The number of people employed in the private sector – at enterprises with at least five employees – increased significantly, by 54 thousand in August in comparison to the same period of the previous year. In the initial eight months of this year, average gross wage was HUF 234 600 and, excluding public work schemes, it was HUF 246 400 in Hungary.
The Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (KKM) are calling for full publicity with regard to the entry ban imposed by the United States of America – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference held on Saturday afternoon in Budapest.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi, Hungary's former Ambassador to France, participated in the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Paris on 19 October.
As a strategic partner and friend of the United States, the Hungarian Government is expecting to engage in a constructive dialogue with the United States, with a view to any critical comments that may emerge, in order to discuss the ban that has been implemented to deny Hungarian nationals entry into the US, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday at the meeting of Parliament’s National Security Committee.
Closed in 2006, Hungary’s embassy in Mongolia will soon reopen and the Hungarian National Trading House will open an office in Ulan Bator before the end of this year to serve as a permanent representation and bridgehead for Hungarian companies investing in Mongolia, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar said in Budapest at the opening ceremony of the Hungarian-Mongolian Business Forum.
Hungary’s economic growth requires many more skilled workers and technicians than those provided by the current education system, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at an event organized to welcome the Hungarian winners of Euroskills, a competition for young skilled Europeans.
The childcare benefit programme for undergraduates introduced at the beginning of this year has already proven successful, as some 150 women have applied for it, Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák said on Sunday.